by jennifer | Aug 6, 2014 | Grammar
Those of you with whom I am friends on Facebook already know how outraged I am about this article in Salon: “According to the dictionary, ‘literally’ now also means ‘figuratively.'” But I’m in enough of a tizzy that a Facebook rant...
by jennifer | May 7, 2013 | Grammar
I have had fantasies in which I run amok with a red Sharpie, fixing the world’s typos. I even had a character in a story do just that. Hats off to the copy editor who has taken it upon himself to wield that red (or black, as the case may be) pen.
by jennifer | Mar 25, 2013 | Grammar
The Atlantic is sounding the death knell for whom (and has it really been so long since I’ve picked up the print version of the magazine that I wanted to type The Atlantic Monthly? It didn’t seem quite right so I checked, and, yep!, it hasn’t used...
by jennifer | Mar 12, 2013 | Grammar
An issue that is near and dear to my heart. I care oh-so-much about the Oxford (aka serial) comma. I am 100%, absolutely, without a doubt in favor of the comma. (The blog post title is a cleaned-up reference to the Vampire Weekend song “Oxford Comma,”...
